The problem of prescription drug abuse and overdose — particularly opioid abuse — is at crisis level in the US and an examination of clinical practices to mitigate this crisis is necessary.
Read moreBetween 60 and 70 percent of patients who undergo a thoracotomy, or a surgical incision into the chest wall, experience some sort of long-term, post-surgical pain. So that patient population was a natural fit for a study focused on pain management, led by the University of Pennsylvania and taking place at Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Peking University People’s Hospital in China.
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Mary Ersek, PhD, RN FPCN, Professor of Palliative Care in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, has been appointed the new Killebrew-Censits Chair in Undergraduate Education effective July 1, 2017.
Two very big honors for Penn Nursing Associate Dean for Practice Rosemary Polomano, PhD, RN, Professor of Pain Practice, one local and one about 7,000 miles away.
